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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @tonyshowoff
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      @tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

      @scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

      @tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

      I reported some of the initial Chinese posts as spam and I'm just now getting notifications they were deleted. Though, I am also getting about 2 new notifications per minute of new posts, so they aren't really fixing the problem. All the buckets in the world won't help if you don't put a pin in it.

      I got 21 during the last paragraph. It has to be easy to fix this.... how do they stop it each time? Do they just ignore it and it stops after a few hours? Do they block it and they find a new way it? It's odd how it keeps going, but isn't eternal.

      I figured they maybe blocked the IP addresses being used and the bots give up with that combined with their posts being deleted. Certainly it's completely automated so even a CAPTCHA would do wonders, and they don't even have that.

      8 new ones whilst writing that.

      @tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

      @scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

      @tonyshowoff said in Serious spam on SW:

      I reported some of the initial Chinese posts as spam and I'm just now getting notifications they were deleted. Though, I am also getting about 2 new notifications per minute of new posts, so they aren't really fixing the problem. All the buckets in the world won't help if you don't put a pin in it.

      I got 21 during the last paragraph. It has to be easy to fix this.... how do they stop it each time? Do they just ignore it and it stops after a few hours? Do they block it and they find a new way it? It's odd how it keeps going, but isn't eternal.

      I figured they maybe blocked the IP addresses being used and the bots give up with that combined with their posts being deleted. Certainly it's completely automated so even a CAPTCHA would do wonders, and they don't even have that.

      8 new ones whilst writing that.

      Oh right, might be a single IP address.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Looks like they managed to get it stopped around 12:36PM EST.

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        • tonyshowoffT
          tonyshowoff
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          It begins again, guess they didn't fix it (no duh).

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          • tonyshowoffT
            tonyshowoff
            last edited by

            Add ReCAPTCHA or something, jeeze!

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            • DanpD
              Danp
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              I don't see any of these "spam" postings. Are they located in a specific category or group?

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Danp
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                @Danp said in Serious spam on SW:

                I don't see any of these "spam" postings. Are they located in a specific category or group?

                They get deleted, if you had email notifications you should have been swamped. If not, their mods run around deleting them as fast as they can.

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                • tonyshowoffT
                  tonyshowoff @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by tonyshowoff

                  @scottalanmiller said in Serious spam on SW:

                  @Danp said in Serious spam on SW:

                  I don't see any of these "spam" postings. Are they located in a specific category or group?

                  They get deleted, if you had email notifications you should have been swamped. If not, their mods run around deleting them as fast as they can.

                  Yes, exactly, I receive 2,583 notifications so far. Plus also I posted a screen shot at the top of what it looks like before they get deleted.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
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                    They were deleted users like crazy, too.

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                    • nadnerBN
                      nadnerB
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                      You can get notified of new posts?
                      I've been using SW for several years and still not figured out how to navigate it.

                      I don't really know how to go anywhere other than the 'feed'

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @nadnerB
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                        @nadnerB said in Serious spam on SW:

                        You can get notified of new posts?
                        I've been using SW for several years and still not figured out how to navigate it.

                        I don't really know how to go anywhere other than the 'feed'

                        Yes, the feed option is one means, an email alert is another.

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